. History of Salem and the immediate vicinity : Columbiana County, Ohio. to locate the road from Wellsvilleto Salineville, and Alliance. Then via Lima andRavenna to Cleveland. After that decision of the majority^ of the direc-tors, Street and Chessman resigned their office ofdirectors in that company and immediately com-menced to raise a voluntary subscription to do thepreliminary work to start the building of a road fromPittsburgh, Pa., via Rochester and New Brighton,Beaver county, Pa., to Salem, Canton, Woosterand Mansfield, in Ohio, to insersect the Cleveland,Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad.
. History of Salem and the immediate vicinity : Columbiana County, Ohio. to locate the road from Wellsvilleto Salineville, and Alliance. Then via Lima andRavenna to Cleveland. After that decision of the majority^ of the direc-tors, Street and Chessman resigned their office ofdirectors in that company and immediately com-menced to raise a voluntary subscription to do thepreliminary work to start the building of a road fromPittsburgh, Pa., via Rochester and New Brighton,Beaver county, Pa., to Salem, Canton, Woosterand Mansfield, in Ohio, to insersect the Cleveland,Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad. A fund was freelyand quickly subscribed, and a preliminary surveywas made by Capt. Whippo, of New^ Castle, Pa.,from the Ohio river at Rochester, Pa., to Salem,< )hi(), and a charter procured from the legislatureot ()hio, and supplemented by the legislature of Penn-sylvania, for a railroad under the name of the Ohio& Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and other pre-liminary work done by the people of Salem in 1847. Immediately after procuring the charter in the. SALEM RAILROAD DEPCT. THK RAILROADS. 169 early part of 1848, a company was organized, and al)oard of directors chosen, (jenl William Robinson,Jr., of Allegheny, Pa., was chosen president, andZadok Street, of Salem, one of the directors; Wil-liam Larimer, of Pittsburgh, treasurer; SamuelChessman one of the assistant treasurers for Ohio ;J. J. Brooks, counselor-at-law. Two hundred andninety-two persons subscribed and paid stock amount-inj^, in the aggregate, to over ninety thousand dol-lars in Columbiana and Mahcming counties. Pitts-burgh manufacturers, having become interested inhaving a western outlet for their productions, stockwas readily subscribed, and the building of the roadcommenced and pushed with vigor. And when com-pleted as far as New Brighton, Pa., passenger trainswere run to that point, until another division wascompleted to Knon, which is seen by the time tableNo. 3, issued November 24th, 1851, Enon was rea
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